Habituation of auditory startle reflex is a new sign of minimally conscious state. [PDF]
Brain, 2020 International audienceNeurological examination of non-communicating patients relies on a few decisive items that enable the crucial distinction between vegetative state (VS)-also coined unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS)-and minimally conscious ...
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fMRI for vegetative and minimally conscious states [PDF]
BMJ, 2012 A more balanced perspective The BBC’s Panorama programme The Mind Reader: Unlocking My Voice broadcast on 13 November 2012 provided important insights into the devastating experience of patients who live in vegetative or minimally conscious states and the families who support them.
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Neurophysiological Indicators of Residual Cognitive Capacity in the Minimally Conscious State [PDF]
Behavioural Neurology, 2015 Background. The diagnostic usefulness of electrophysiological methods in assessing disorders of consciousness (DoC) remains to be established on an individual patient level, and there is need to determine what constitutes robust experimental paradigm to ...
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Audiomotor Integration in Minimally Conscious State: Proof of Concept! [PDF]
Neural Plasticity, 2015 Patients suffering from chronic disorders of consciousness (DOC) are characterized by profound unawareness and an impairment of large-scale cortical and subcortical connectivity.
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[Vegetative or minimally conscious state?]. [PDF]
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 2010 We describe the clinical course of a 51-year-old woman in a vegetative state and of a 63-year-old woman in a minimally conscious state. The difference between these two states is an important one, as clinical course, prognosis and medical-ethical considerations of both are different. In practice it is difficult to distinguish between a vegetative state
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Deep brain stimulation improves electroencephalogram functional connectivity of patients with minimally conscious state. [PDF]
CNS Neurosci Ther, 2023 Dang Y +6 more
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Functional Evaluation of Awareness in Vegetative and Minimally Conscious State. [PDF]
Open Neuroimag J, 2017 Objective:The aim of this study was to assess differences in brain activation in a large sample of Vegetative State (VS) and Minimally Conscious State (MCS) patients, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).Methods:We studied 50 patients four to seven months after brain injury.
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Single unit activities recorded in the thalamus and the overlying parietal cortex of subjects affected by disorders of consciousness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The lack of direct neurophysiological recordings from the thalamus and the cortex hampers our understanding of vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state in humans.
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The Minimally Conscious State [PDF]
Archives of Neurology, 2007 Limited epidemiologic data undermine the identification of patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) and needed health policy analysis. Based on the natural history of disorders of consciousness and the evolution of MCS, we propose 2 models to characterize MCS epidemiology: a severity model to integrate diagnostic and severity of injury codes, such
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Statistical learning in patients in the minimally conscious state [PDF]
Cerebral Cortex, 2022 Abstract When listening to speech, cortical activity can track mentally constructed linguistic units such as words, phrases, and sentences. Recent studies have also shown that the neural responses to mentally constructed linguistic units can predict the outcome of patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC). In healthy individuals,
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